Level: 21
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
Level: 21
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
Kirk Acevedo has turned things around once again, taking a massive pot off Steven Przybl with a cagey check-call on the river after finding a baby flush.
Przybl had naught but king-high and is under 200,000 now as Acevedo is ascending.
Frank Katana has grabbed hold of the chip lead here in Niagara Falls.
The crafty Canadian manged to turn a ![]()
open into trip queens and bet three streets for value, getting paid off even with a river shove.
He's now the first player past the 700,000 post and counting.
Here's how it looks at the top of the chip counts with 45 players now remaining:
Level: 20
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
Respected West Seneca, NY grinder Dan Wagner, who finished runner-up in the 2015 Fallsview Poker Classic $1k this past February for $109,114, just got some much needed help in his hunt for another big score here on this side of the border.
He flopped a pair of queens holding ![]()
versus a player on ![]()
and found a third queen on the river to push up over 500,000 in chips and into a spot among the leaders.
2013 World Series of Poker Bracelet winner Michael Malm just busted on the bubble.
Facing a raise, he pushed in with big slick and got looked up by a player on ![]()
. A jack on the flop did him in and the remaining players are all in the money.
The dealers have been asked to hold up as hand-for-hand play will now commence one spot off the money.
The next player out goes home empty handed while the player after that will collect an $1,150 min-cash.
Level: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
The players are now off on the first 10-minute break of the day with 56 remaining - Just 2 spots away from the money.